Note: This story is an omegaverse that violates every timeline in a heinous way.

Let's start: Gao Yingjie and Qiao Yifan debuted in season 7 as Sun Xiang and not in season 8 as is canon. In the All-Star of that season, it was where Yingjie faced Jiexi, who let him win (as it happened in All-Star 8), and Yifan also competed, but instead of facing Li Xuan as a ghost demon, he did it as an assassin against Yang Cong, who beat him up. Ye Qiu felt sorry for the boy and recommended him to change classes; that's how he starts as a ghost demon under Ye Qiu's instructions, although he does not know at that time that the one helping him is God Ye, captain of Excellent Era.

The story begins in season 8 when Ye Qiu is removed from Excellent Era. Yifan's contract ended at the end of season 7 when Tiny Herb did not renew it (just like in season 8, but in my story it happens a season earlier). So Yifan has been training at home since season 8 began. When Ye Xiu offers him to join his team, he is the first to jump on board. In season 9 in the real timeline, Heavenly Sword is the new team that joins the alliance and Time is the one that returns to the Alliance after winning the Challenger League during season 8. Well, here Heavenly Sword is the new team, but Ye Xiu's team is the one that comes from the Challenger League. That is, in the same season that Ye Qiu is forced to retire (the 8th), he returns for the Challenger League. It's like kicking him out the door and he happily enters through the window.

The pro alliance begins, according to the novel, in mid-August; at the end of April, the regular season ends and the first week of May the playoffs begin towards the championship, with the season ending sometime between the third and fourth week of May. Then, the pro teams rest until mid-August when a new season begins. While the Challenger League starts in September. The tournament starts with the online stage, which is sudden death. If you lose a match, you're out. The winning team keeps advancing until only 20 teams are left. Once there are 20 teams left, they rest for three months and then play the offline stage (live Stage). For obvious reasons, in my fic I violate this.

The Challenger League begins the first week of April, when the regular season of the league is ending. The first week of May, when the playoffs begin, the top 20 teams have already come out of the Challenger League. But a break is taken from the Challenger League for the Pro League final. The Pro Championship, let's say, ends the fourth week of May. So the offline tournament of the Challenger League with the top 20 teams will begin the first week of June, with a Challenger League winner in July, who would enter the pro scene in mid-August for the new season.

This also causes Excellent Era and Ye Qiu not to cross paths in the Challenger League because Ye Xiu would be entering the Challenger League in the same season that Excellent Era expelled him. And by the time Excellent Era faces relegation, the Challenger League to choose the team that enters season 9 will have already begun.

Please forgive all the inconsistencies; I wrote this for fun and boredom between my medical appointments.

(Don't worry, this first omega with which the story begins is not Ye Xiu).

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Prologue

He knew it, he wasn't blind. Although he wanted to feign ignorance with all his might, to act as if nothing was happening, the facts were the facts. His condition was beginning to decline, mainly because of the illegal suppressors. When he joined the Pro Alliance, there was no place for an omega. Blending in the game was easy; you didn't have to face hundreds of people to play. But as one of the best in Glory, he was obviously invited to the first pro alliance of Glory, and he wanted the opportunity, but as an omega, he knew he would lose it even before having it. So he had used illegal drugs to pretend to be a Beta and be able to play.

It had worked for much longer than anyone would have thought. He had come a long way; Blue Rain had played in every Play Off since they entered the professional league (which, by the way, were not many, only two seasons). He, who founded the Blue Brook guild even before the Pro Alliance existed, had become the first captain of Blue Rain. His warlock Skowsaar had become a God-level account, with the silver weapon he himself created for him. But he was declining. It wasn't because of his age. Although for the world of eSports, the lifespan was relatively short, especially if he were truly a beta, as an omega and at only 22 years old, it wasn't the case. His age wasn't a problem; his gender had the greatest recovery ability among all dynamics. After all, nature made them that way to withstand heats and babys. So no, it wasn't his age, it was the suppressors. They were beginning to poison his system, starting to affect his reflexes. So he began to decline accordingly, while young and talented alphas like the young Huang Shaotian or Yu Wenzhou began to catch up to him rapidly. And not only were they catching up, it was only a matter of time before they surpassed him. And he knew it. He also knew that his place in the Glory Pro Alliance was nearing its end. He could stop taking the suppressors and let his genetics heal him; he still had time to do it, he wasn't that bad, but the Glory Pro Alliance was not for omegas. Oh, he was sure that Blue Rain would fight to keep him if he told the truth, that's how loyal his team was, but he would only manage to drag them down with him.

So whether it was his nature or the suppressors, his career already had an expiration date, and Wei Chen knew it.

Accepting this had not been easy, especially for someone like him, who was known for being rude, playing dirty, and being shameless. It wasn't just losing the career he had worked hard to achieve, it was losing his family. His omega instincts had been appeased by seeing the boys of Blue Rain as his own family, especially the young Shaotian, who was 7 years younger than him. He had adopted Shaotian as his son even though the age difference wasn't enough. That's why all his dirty play and trash talk had been taught to that little alpha with pride; after all, Wei Chen was not, nor ever was, the typical omega. He wasn't kind or gentle like people thought his gender should be. He was foul-mouthed, lazy, and unkempt; that life had made him an omega was a cruel joke of fate. People would never have guessed that the captain of Blue Rain, the current king of trash talk, the creator of the containment method, was actually an omega. Many had the idea that omegas were sweet and submissive, and obviously the captain of Blue Rain was nowhere near any of those things. If you were to go solely by his personality, he would easily fit in with a rude alpha, but trying to pass himself off as an alpha would have been too risky, so instead, he pretended to be a completely normal beta. That was the safest and easiest.

The day of his downfall came sooner than expected, it was the day that Yu Wenzhou defeated him three times in a row. Wei Chen knew that his time had come. Although Yu Wenzhou was an alpha and had the IQ of a genius, his hands were slow, crippled hands, invalid hands among professionals, hands that could barely reach the minimum APM of a professional player. To be beaten by him, it was clear that it was time to retire, he could no longer be the pillar of the team he loved so much. He couldn't drag his team down with him to his inevitable decline. So at the end of the second season of the Pro Alliance, in the night, he disappeared with orders for his account, his warlock, that warlock he built from day one of Glory on the first server, to be handed over to this young prodigal alpha who, even with crippled hands, had managed to make his own way. He and Huang Shaotian were the future of Blue Rain.

The hardest part of leaving was leaving Shaotian; his instincts felt like he was abandoning his own pup, it was heartbreaking to the point that the pain even felt physical. It was more painful than leaving his account.

More than once, as he walked away from Blue Rain, he was about to turn back, but he wasn't a typical omega, he was never an omega who succumbed to his instincts, so he mercilessly crushed them under his shoes as he moved forward without looking back, leaving behind his life, his glory.

He left the suppressors with no choice and spent the next six months of his life in a rehabilitation hospital, like a common addict, with doctors looking at the omega they considered ruined with pity. Of course, for someone like the former king of trash talk, that was worth nothing.

When his stupid body finally recovered, the doctors were clear, using suppressors one more time could kill him. They assigned him a social worker from the omega protection program to monitor and protect him from himself. Something unnecessary, he was not a suicide. But the government had its own stupid rules. Although four years later, when he had his first and only child, they left him alone. They considered him fine for having a pup to cling to. Well, partly they were right; he wouldn't do anything stupid with a little one to care for and protect.

Without him, Skowsaar and Blue Rain shone once again. The moment when Yu Wenzhou led Glory to Blue Rain in the sixth season, giving them their first championship, was his proudest moment, only surpassed about 6 months later by the day his son was born, but that's another story.

Wei Chen got an ordinary job that he could do from home and continued to play Glory only as an anonymous player, not as a professional. And he thought that was his end with Glory, or so he believed. Until almost 7 years after the day he left the league, someone brought him back, making big waves. Ye Xiu, also known as the god Ye Qiu, revolutionized everything and dragged him along. A total group of misfits with Ye Qiu at the helm simply stormed the Professional Alliance.

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APM - "Actions Per Minute" in esports. It refers to the number of actions or commands a player can perform in a minute during a game. In real-time strategy games like StarCraft, for example, a high APM can be crucial for controlling units, building structures, and making decisions quickly. A high APM is often associated with highly skilled and competitive players in esports.

Also, it's worth noting that omega pregnancies only last 6 months.

Please remember that English is not my first language. I would be grateful for any corrections to improve the quality of the translation to make it better for you. But please be kind ^^